FREMOIT, 



BUCHAMI AND FILLMORE ; 



THE PARTIES CALLED TO ORDER. 



A FRIEND OF FREEDOM AND PEACE. 



NEW YORK: 

LIVERMOEE & RUDD, PUBLISHERS, 310 BROADWAY. 

1856. 



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. It is not many years since the American Union 
■ ' ood like a solid, majestic rock in the midst of 
:»rms and thundering temiests, which agitated the 
'.St powerful empires and mighty nations. ]^ot 
ly years since, the name of American citizen was 
f velcomed, cherished and venerated through the 
whole world, and it was more eagerly sought for 
than a title of nobility, or any privileged qualifica- 
tion. Without a standing army, and having almost 
an insignificant number of armed vessels, the repre- 
sentatives of our EepubHc were admitted and heard 
with marked deference at the councils of the greatest 
potentates of Europe. Our admirable institutions 
were upheld to the world as the best model of 
rational freedom and popular government, and our 
people as the best specimen of indefatigable activity, 
of honest industry, of daring spirit of enterprise and 
progress. Our tendencies for liberty, and our com- 



6 J^EMOISTT, BUCHANAN, AND FILMOEE ; OU, 

mercial genius were liked everywhere ; and even our 
youthful freaks were met with smiles of indulgence. 
Whilst the names of Washington, Franklin and Jef- 
ferson had become like household words among all 
civilized people,* many big hearts in the four quai-^ 
ters of the earth were thrilled with joy at the doctrines 
proclaimed in our j)arliamentary halls by Monroe and 
his confederates, and at the words, full of encourage- 
ment and wisdom, which were occasionally falling 
from the lips of Clay, Calhoun and Webster. But 
how sadly discouraging and even humiliating is not 
now become, by an almost sudden downfall, the poli- 
tical situation of our young Republic, both at home 
and abroad ! And how rapidly has not the vicious 
working of our policy impaired recently even the 
moral state of our society, and degraded us in the esti- 
mation of our former friends and neighbors ! 

* Nothing can furnish a better proof of the general sympathy of 
foreign nations towards the Americans, than that eager avidity with 
which all sorts of publications on the United States of America, and 
especially the history of the War of Independence, are sought for and 
read by strangers. The portraits of our great men, together with the 
facsimile of the Declaration of our Independence, can be seen almost 
in every town in Europe and other parts of the world. When I was 
travelling some years ago in the northern part of Italy, I was most 
agreeably surprised to find myself in a Washington-street (Strada di 
Washington), in a small and romantic village at the foot of the Alps, 
and under the Austrian dominion ! 



THE PARTIES CALLED TO OEDEK. 7 

I need not hint at some atrocious acts lately per- 
petrated under the very eyes of the supreme magis- 
trate of the Union, on the very threshold of the 
temple of Tliemis, and in the midst of what ancient 
Rome would call the Fathers of the country^ which 
the glaive of justice was not able to reach, and 
being thus left unpunished were honored with frantic 
applause and lustral crowns on the part of a degene- 
rate caste of our people. "Would to God that the 
veil of oblivion could be thrown upon these dis- 
graceful events, and that we might hide from the 
eyes of the civilized world certain deeds and scenes, 
which would scarcely be tolerated among wild Iro- 
quois and Patagonians ! Let us pass in silence also 
the many and frequent occurrences which have 
clearly proved that corruption and peculation have 
pervaded all the branches of our administration, our 
legislative bodies, and all the public offices in the 
country, and are rapidly spreading in all the walks of 
our society, so that the former purity of our institu- 
tions is now a subject of blush for us. 

Our most essential franchises have become the prey 
of rapacious political gamblers* — our ballot-box has 

* Our memory is still fresh about the system of fraud and cor 
ruption, which originated in Washington during the Taylor — Fill 
more administration. The discoveries which led the unfortunate 



8 FEEMONT, BUCHANAN AND FILLMOEE ; OE, 

been transformed into a game tool for our modern 
Cagliostros and leger-de-mains — and our polls are the 
favorite battle-field of notorious gladiators and row- 
dies.* 

Gardiner to his tragical end, revealed to the public a plot of frauds 
and robberies, with which some of the nearest friends of the Presi- 
dent were connected. 

Two years ago President Pierce vetoed a bill, which Congress had 
passed, for the grant of a few thousand acres of land to a virtuous 
and philanthropic lady who had purposed to found an Insane Asyhmi 
for the United States on a new plan. But now the same functionary 
puts his signature, without a wink, to the grant of over 12,000,000 of 
acres of public land, given to five or six privileged companies, while 
on the other hand he vetoes the small and necessary appropriation to 
clear out our rivers and improve our ports! The way in which 
the public is robbed and plundered by a swarm of sharks, in con- 
nection with our unscrupulous politicians, is not a mystery to any 
one acquainted with the lobbies of Congress, and the State legisla- 
tures. 

It is not long since the Grand Jury of the city of New York found 
a true bill of indictment against a notorious Judge, and made a pre- 
sentment against several aldermen, councilmen, and city officers, 
charged with bribery, perjury, and other offences. But what was the 
result ? The judge was acquitted, though with a rather unenviable 
recommendation from the jury ; and the prosecution against the latter 
was abandoned by the District Attorney, who candidly confessed, 
that in the present condition of affairs, he did not see the probabihty 
of attaining the ends of justice. 

* The discoveries recently made by the Vigilance Committee at San 



THE PAETIES CALLED TO ORDER. if 

But even these evils fall almost into insignificance 
if we compare them with the present threatening 
situation of the country, provoked by the imprudent, 
unwise and anti-national policy adopted by the 
Pierce administration, in respect to the Kansas and 
Nebraska question. Like Pandora's box of old, this 
untoward question threatens to pour upon us the 
greatest misfortunes that may befall a nation. Effer- 
vescence of party passions, spirit of disunion, and 
civil war are beating at our doors ; and, to our great 
humiliation, the same shackles and chains', which for- 
merly served to drive negroes into bondage and ser- 
vitude, are now used in Kansas to hinder white free- 
men from the exercise of their franchises and national 
rights.* The territory has been invaded by hordes of 
ruffians, the polls were mobbed, the legislature over- 
thrown and dispersed by the janizaries of the central 
government, and records of monstrous outrages, of 
violations of property and of civil and political rights 
are daily soiling the pages of our national history. 
The government of Pierce has wholly abandoned 

Francisco clearly reveal how the elections are conducted in every cor- 
ner of our Union. How many Yankee Sullivans and Pooles do not 
Btill sway high offices, and dictate the law in our sham conventions. 

* See the laws passed by the Missauii-Kansas spurious legisla- 
ture. 

1* 



10 FREMONT, BUCHANAIT AJSTD FILLMORE; OR, 

the great national issues, and placed itself under tlie ^ 
control of the slaveholdiug interests, which seem only 
to care for the superfetation of sUxvery as a political 
weapon to lead the whole country into contentions, 
and the JSTorth and the South in opposite directions. 

I am no abolitionist, nor do I think one hundredth 
part of those who will support the election of Fre- 
mont to the Presidency are abolitionists — much less 
can Fremont himself be suspected by any honest 
man of abolitionism. I am no partisan of extreme 
measures, nor friendly to any doctrine having for its 
object to cure an existing evil by creating another, 
the consequences of which would certainly carry a 
tardy repentance on our part. But no man of sense 
can overlook the fact that slavery, tolerated as it is, 
and guaranteed by our Constitution to certain States, 
is not an institution of our Republic : it is a kind of 
hereditary leprosy entailed upon those States by an- 
other government, and so flir no blame or responsi- 
bility can rest upon us. 

We remember with pride the early measures of 
our fathers, by wliich, in a league with the most en- 
lightened governments of Europe, they suppressed as 
immoral and inhuman the slave-trade. But how can 
we, with any consistency, reconcile those philanthro- 
pic enactments with a policy M'hich tempts cupidity 



THE PAJRTIE8 CALLED TO ORDER. 11 

and avarice by tlie allurements of insatiable new 
markets of Southern slaves ? with a policy which 
seems disposed to extend slave labor upon an almost 
incommensurate area of our hemisphere, to the great 
detriment of the honest and laborious industry of the 
whole free race ? Is not the government, by such a 
course, defeating its own purposes, and rendering 
nugatory the measures of former legislations ? "Would 
not our city authorities be liable to impeachment, if, 
having the yellow fever or the oriental plague at the 
Quarantine, they were to take the most stringent 
precautionary measures only against vessels arriving 
from infected ports, and at the same time allow a free 
communication of the Quarantine inmates and of in- 
fected individuals with the rest of the population 
inland of our State ? 

But the balance of power, and a sort of eqwl- 
librium, which the advocates of the Nebraska bill 
claim as necessary between the free and the slave- 
holding States, require, they say, that the South 
should participate in the same ratio with the other 
parts of the Union in the new acquisitions of 
territory, and have a proj)ortionate inci'ease of repre- 
sentation in the councils of the nation. I doubt 
whether such a specious plea can seriously and in 
honafide be sustained, because a mere cursory look at 



12 FEEMONT, BUCHANAN AND FILLMOEE ; OR, 

the map of the United States and at our statistical 
tables will show the complete inadmissibility of such 
a claim. The fifteen States where slavery is tolerated 
cover an area, the Columbia District included, of 
851,598 square miles, with a population of white 
freemen of 5,222,418, out of which only 34:7,525 are 
slaveholders and constitute what they call, with their 
characteristic bombast, the Southern interests. Now 
these 347,525 owners of human property are repre- 
sented by 90 members of the House of Eepresenta- 
tives and 30 Senators, thus giving a representative 
for each 68,725 w^hite inhabitants. If we compare 
numbers with the sixteen free States, we find that 
these do not occupy more than 612,597 square miles, 
with a population of nearly fourteen millions of in- 
habitants, who are represented by 144 members of 
the lower House and 32 Senators — that is to say, a 
representative for each 91,935 white men, thus giving 
to the slave representation an advantage of thirty 
votes in the lower House over freedom, in the pro- 
portion of the respective populations, and yet the 
former are wielding their influence for further in- 
crease and extension ! 

I do not admit any Utopia in respect to the eleva- 
tion of the black race among us to the level of the 
white men; but at the same time no sensible man 



THE PARTIES CALLED TO ORDER. 13 

can sympathize with those, who are trjini. to degrade 
our race to the servile condition of the negro slave 

I said enougli to show the internal situation of our 
country under an administration imposed upon the 
nation by a bold and reckless di<iue, which has actu- 
ally calumniated democracy by usurping its name. 
Let us now see what is our position in reference to 
our neighbors and foreign powers. 

It was the manifest destiny of these United States 
of America that the countries lying between our 
southern boundaries and the distant term of Fire 
Land, mostly inhabited by descendants of the Latin 
race mixed with the various aboriginal families, 
should voluntarily place themselves under our moral 
control and commercial influence, for the consolida- 
tion of their independence from European potentates, 
and ot their internal republican institutions. Simila- 
rity of governmental forms, analogy of the circum- 
stances under which their emancipation and ours were 
obtained, together with that natural good feeling, 
prompted by mutual comity and neighborly inter- 
course, had secured for us a visible and powerful 
preponderance in the affairs of the South American 
countries, both in a political and commercial point 
of view. The immense resources of those regions 
being properly explored and developed by our 



14: FKEMONT, BUCHANAJSr AUB FILLMORE; OR, 

industry and spirit of enterprise, were gradually flow- 
ing to our shores to augment our comforts and wealth. 
Whilst on the other hand, people still bending under 
the yoke of foreign dominion, almost in sight of our 
Hepublic, were looking upon us as natural guardians 
and protectors in their strife for liberty and indepen- 
dence.* 

But the short period of three years has been suffi- 
cient for our federal executive to scatter the brilliant 
horoscope of our destinies, and to destroy the most 
solid advantages formerly obtained by the skill, wis- 
dom and valor of our fathers. Wherever we move 
now our steps out of our own country, we are looked 
upon with undisguised distrust, suspicion, and some- 
times with open contempt. Our flag, which was 
formerly cheered as the faithful emblem of freedom 
and national progress, is now secretly watched in 
foreign ports and at sea, lest it should cover a cargo 
of slaves or an expedition of filibusters. Our fellow 
citizens are trapped and hunted up in Central Ame- 
rica, fired at and massacred at Panama, in Peru, and 

* We refer those who wish to know how the liberals of Cuba feel 
at present towards us, to a certain correspondence which took place 
some time ago, between General Quitman and a member of the Junta 
Cubana, and to other publications, in which the government of "Wash- 
ington is openly accused of certain matters of espionnage, which wero 
the cause of the tragical death of Pinto. 



THE PAUTIES CALLED TO OKDEE. 15 

on the Amazon river; and when they arrive at 
Havana it is only by mere condescendence that the 
local authorities extend to them the same privileges 
and facilities which are unhesitatingly granted to 
foreigners of other countries. Even the official cha- 
racter is no shield any more for om* countrymen, 
against the hostile demonstrations of foreigners. 

I need not mention the treatment received by 
Soule on his return from Ostend to Spain, at the 
hands of the French police, and how our military 
commissioners sent to the Crimea were, on their way 
home, unceremoniously dismissed by the minister of 
war of the Emperor of France.* But it is a subject 

* However mortifying for the United States government may have 
been this unfortunate occurrence, we must confess it was not entirely 
unjustifiable on the part of the oifending party. It is well known to 
all persons conversant with military aifairs how jealous all the govern- 
ments are in respect to their defences and fortified posts, which are 
generally guarded with extreme watchfulness and secrecy, especially 
in time of war. It was then more than imprudent the demand of 
the American comnussioners to survey certain forts in the neighbor- 
hood of Paris, whilst, notwithstanding our strict neutrality, the sym- 
pathies of our people were visibly enlisted in favor of Russia. It 
was said also, at that time, that the same commissioners, whilst in 
Eussia, had been rather too free in their conversations and talks 
about France, which the secret agents of the French police had not 
been slow in conveying from St. Peter.sburg to the ears of the Prefect 
of Police at Paris. In short, our commissioners were looked upon 
in Paris a? secret emissaries, or tlie friends of the Russians. 



16 FREMONT, BUCHANAN AND FILLMOKE ; OK, 

worthy of reflection, the fact that in South and Cen- 
tral America we can scarcely name one of our con- 
suls or diplomatic representatives, that has not in 
some way been exposed to troubles, insults, and 
sometimes to imprisonment. Can we accuse of all 
these disgraceful proceedings the particular irritabi- 
lity, the special idiosyncrasy and want of courtesy of 
the inhabitants of those countries ? But the spi- 
rit of hospitality and good disposition of those 
same people, are known and appreciated by all 
the travellers who visit them. And then, how is 
it that nothing of this kind happens to the thou- 
sands and thousands of Germans, Frenchmen, Eng- 
lishmen, and Italians, who either visit those opulent 
regions, or settle there for the pursuit of their com- 
mercial enterprises ? The true and immediate cause 
of such unpleasant occurrences can only be traced in 
the injudicious choice made by the present adminis- 
tration "of our officials abroad, whose nominations, we 
recollect, were met at the time with manifest disap- 
probation by our public, reluctantly sanctioned by 
the Senate, and some of them decidedly refused by 
the powers to which they were appointed.* 

* To one of the most important posts of our diplomacy, Centra. 
America, Pierce liad sent the notorious Borland, formerly, and now 
a"-ain a quack doctor and a pill-maker. His only exploit worth men- 
tioning was the murder of a poor inolTensive fisherman, shot by Cap- 



THE PARTIES CALLED TO ORDER. 17 

The doctrines freelj and publicly propounded by 
many of those political agents, and boldly sustained 
by the government press, that we have the right to 

tain Smith at the instigation of this great diplomatist, and the sub- 
sequent destruction of Grcytown for the imperishable glory o^ our 
name. For the legation of Spain, where the solution of many deli- 
cate and highly important questions would have required a man of 
great experience and skill, of courteous and conciliatory manners, 
and particularly acceptable to the Court of Madrid, was chosen the 
celebrated Soulc, whose filibustering propensities and acrimonious 
feelings towards the Spaniards were as notorious as many other cir- 
cumstances of his public and private life. The result was, that, after 
having fought a couple of duels and kicked up half a dozen rows in 
Madrid, and after having passed through a labyrinth of spies, (/ens- 
(Tarmes, and police agents in France, he returned home just as wise 
as he was before, and without accomplishing any adjustment of the 
pending questions. Manon of Virginia was sent to Paris, and the 
only claim to celebrity which he acquired at the imperial court is a 
certain bon mot which the presence of the Haytien Envoy at the Tui- 
Icries prompted from the lips of our negro-driving ambassador. 
However, the place where the good-natured Mason tried to be witty, 
and the fact that the colored diplomatist was there on equal footing 
with the American minister, destroy half the merit of the joke. 
Buchanan's presence in London during a period of nearly three 
years, would have passed almost unnoticed without the notoriety 
given to him by that sublime piece of insanity known as the Ostend 
Manifesto. It is an unquestionable fact, that the fame of his diplo 
matic skill has not been enhanced at all by his mis.-ion to England. 
The Central American question, and other important subjects, which 
he had assumed the task to bring to a close, were left to his succea 
eor for settlement. It was a good luck for us, that his return to 



18 FREMONT, BUCHANAN AND FILLMOKE ; OR, 

take from another nation whatever may be useful to 
lis, peaceably if we can, and forcibly if necessary, are 
totally at variance with those principles of distribu- 

America preceded Mr. Crampton's dismissal from Wasliington, or tbat 
matter would hare been worse. The last, but not the least, in this 
diplomatic batch comes our good and amiable George Saunders. 
This gentleman had been appointed, in appearance, Consul to Lon- 
don, but in reality he was plenipotentiary to the court of the allied 
powers, Kossuth, Ledru RoUin, and Mazzini. But as he found out, 
although too late, that those gentlemen, though great and pure pa- 
triots, were secti07ial, very sectional, and had no mandate from their 
respective countries either to represent them, or to treat with 
Young America, he left also his post and his friends without attaining 
any nLterial advantage for us. But his renown as a public man will 
be everlasting in the annals of European diplomacy, as his thunder- 
ing letters to the French democrats, and to the Executive Directory 
of°the Swiss RepubUc, will always stand as eminent as the pyramids 
on the vast plains of the Nile. 

But even there, with his bosom friends and sympathizers, poor 
George met with an unexpected Schec. Mazzini whose notions of 
Democracy are not exactly in accordance with the slave-driving 
principles of Brooks, Toombs and compeers, committed the great in- 
discretion of publishing a certain article not quite palatable to the 
apostles of the Kansas and Nebraska bill. The thundering pen of 
Saunders was not slow to give to the Roman triumvir a serious re- 
buke. Mazzini was then absent from London on an exploring excur- 
sion and by his default brother Kossuth undertook to throw water 



THE PA3JTIES CALLED TO OKDEE. 19 

tive justice — of coventional law — and inteVnational 
securitj, by wliicli all civilized people are ruled and 
governed. Nor less dangerous and objectionable is 
the doctrine that we may force into the path of use- 
ful reforms and better institutions our neighbors, 
who, it matters not in what degree they stand in the 
sphere of civilization and knowledge, still they feel 
that they are masters at home, and are not yet incli- 
ned to adopt our laws, our customs and usages. They 
also have some notions of Know-nothingism, in their 
own country. Have we the right to make them feel 
and act to the contrary ? 
Therefore, when that stupendous Ostend Manifesto 

on the fire, aud to appease the ire of the Kentuckian Democrat ; but 
Mazzini, t? ho does not easily compromise in matters of pohtical creed, 
tore off all the patching of the skillful Magyar, and made even stronger 
protestations against the Democratic slave-holding doctrines of Ame- 
rica. Saunders was then packing up his tent to come back for the 
preparations of a new campaign ; he bade good-bye to his European 
cousins, and told them, that foreigners do not understand anything 
of the peculiar institutions of America. The other appointments to 
foreign missions were all, with very few exceptions, made with the 
same spirit, and total want of tact. Daniels, sent to Turin, where 
his nomination had been found at first rather objectionable, pub- 
lished, after a short residence in Piedmont, in the Richmond Enquirer, 
some rather strange and shabby notions about Italian women, whose 
breath, he said, smells garlick. The Italian ladies call Dariicls a 
Mrs. TroUope in breeches ! 



20 FREMONT, BUCHANAN AND FILLMORE *, OK, 

transpired in the political circles of Europe, it made 

the hearts of many despots glad, and the spirits of 

many liberals sad, as it was taken as a visible sign 

of the downfall of our Eepublic, and a manifest 

repudiation of the fundamental principles, upon which 

our glorious fathers had cemented our progressive 

prosperity and greatness. It was most explicitly 

shown in that untoward declaration, that, more than 

extension of territory, we aimed, by the acquisition 

or conquest of Cuba, at the perpetuation, safety, and 

furtherance of that peculiar institution, which only a 

spurious democracy knows how to appreciate. Slavery. 

I will now ask any impartial man, any man of 

sense, if such doctrines so barefacedly proclaimed 

I and upheld before the world, do not tend to tarnish 

' the good name and reputation of our beloved country, 

' and to render suspicious all our professions of good 

! fairh and regard for the liberty of mankind? Is it 

not thus, that we have lost what was more precious 

! for us than any alliance, the sympathies of all foreign 

nations ? * 

. * One of the most accredited newspapers of Europe (Le Constitu- 
i tionnel), in a very judicious article upon our affairs, was recently 

observing, that nothing had served more efficiently the cause of 
j monarchy, and cooled down the enthusiasm of the republicans of 
I Europe, than the policy of our present government both at home and 

abroad. 



THE PAETIB8 CALLED TO OEDEE. 21 

But the measure of om- evils was not yet filled 
and our shame was to be aceomplished by another 
bold and most impudent attempt at our degradation 
on the part of the very framers of our misfortunes In- 

steadofi-illingupon their tnees,andcoTeringwithboth 
hands their faees, and asking pardon of God, these same 
men have now the audacity to come forward before 
the people and recommend, as theirfavorite candidate 
for the next presidential election, that same James 
Buchanan, the very author of the Ostend Manifesto 
who pledges his faith to the monstrous platform of 
the Cmcinnati Convention, which is itself nothinc but 
a mere sanction of the Pierce poUcy, and a J. de 
confiance in the present admiustration. However I 
do not see what claim can the Cincinnati Convention 
have to the support of the American people, and, in 
fact, what right have aU these conventions to substi- 
tute to the unbiased judgment of the nation the 
ambitious views and decisions of intriguing politicians % 
ihe greatest and soundest part of the American 
people disclaim and repel this vicious method of 
direct election through conventions and delegations 
ihe system of our government is based upon prin- 
ciples of popular sovereignty, and of pure represen- 
tation ; It cannot be converted into a scheme for per- 
sonal aggrandizement, under the operation of which 



22 FKEMONT, BUCHANAN AND FILLMOKE I OR, 



merit is proscribed, faithful service an objection, 
and integrity ridiculed and persecuted. We cannot 
countenance a combination of politicians to rule the 
people of the United States' — to possess themselves of 
the public ofHces — to exclude faithful and efficient 
servants for the exaltation of intriguers and gamblers. 
The people of the United States have reached their age 
of reason ; they can govern their own affairs without 
the assistance of a camarilla, or the guardianship of a 
regency. "VVlio will then vote for James Buchanan 
as President of the United States ? Who will sup- 
port a man, who, after having unreservedly endorsed 
the Cincinnati platform,* is in duty bound to carry 
into effect, if elected, all its schemes, and prej)oster- 
ous doctrines ? With Buchanan in the presidential 
chair, we shall have not only a faithful continuation 
of Pierce's policy, but we shall most probably see 
accomplished other projects, which the natural inde- 
cision of the latter was not able to carry to perfec- 
fectiou. We shall have troubles and civil war at 
home, filibusterism and depredations abroad, and 
as a corollary of all these evils, the greatest misfor- 

* We must refer our readers to Mr. Buchanuan's speech or letter 
of acceptance of his nomination : " I am not James Buchanan, any 
more," he suys, " I am the Cincinnati platform." We give him credit 
for his modesty, and think he will keep his promise if he is elected. 



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tune that may befall a commercial nation, war with 
toreig-u jDowers.* 

It is impossible for any reasoning man to think 
bat our neighbors, whatever ra.y be the language 

-eh and,iference and apathy upon o„r schemes of 
emtonal aggrandizement and unceasing attempts to 
ake from them what they have inherited from 
«.e.r ancestors, their soil and their independence 
Besses the ditference of races, nature it«e/has sep: 
.ated them from us with certain barriers which it 
r .'' ."" '"P"*"' »d ""^possible to go beyond 
Jvor ,s u to be supposed that the g..eat powez. of Eu^ 
rope, for wh,eh it is a vital interest to maintain a bind 
of .?«rfeW among all the nations and potentates 
the wor d, wUl overlook the reckless projects of an 
>">just.fiable ambition. And in ease of any diiHculty 

• Those, wto .„.. ,„h , ki.„ „f ,,„„ ,j^ ,^^^ 
fore,g„ p„we„, ao ce«.inl, underrate .he i„.e„se .m.„, ^e-ou"! 
. .„i „„ e„e.ies can „o™, .. , „„„„,, „„ J^ ' '« 
.he «.« meffie,enc, of „„ .,„,,„, „,^ .„, :„,,^^^, °;' 
Our CO.S, ..d „.,bes. harbor, .re .hoU, ™p™,ee.ed, and „T 

«■ :::rr" °' "''°'™"»'- ^^^ «» '^i^. "- ,•; ,e. .:: 

would be co„,ple.e,, rnl„ed. and we would be overburdened wUh an 

lelt without employment and without food. 



24 FKEMONT, BUCHANAN AND FILLMORE ; OK, 

and of warlike demonstrations on tlie part of European 
maritime powers, I would respectfully ask our South- 
ern democrats, who would sufler the most ? Where 
would Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, and the Caro- 
linas find markets for their tobacco, cotton, rice, and 
naval stores ? 

However, all those whose interests have been cre- 
ated or enhanced by the present regime, all those for 
whom official patronage, corruption, exaction, and 
peculation have been an inexhaustible source of 
wealth, will and must give their votes for Buchanan. 
The 350,000 slave-owners, slave-drivers, and slave- 
dealers, for whom this bogus democracy is opening new 
markets ; for whose interest draconian laws are made 
in the so-called Legislature of Kansas, which would 
put to blush the most sanguinary despot, will certainly 
make the mightiest efforts to drive the southern vot- 
ers in favor of Buchanan ; and where the usual 
means of persuasion may fail, they will resort, as their 
press is daily insinuating, to more efficient and forci- 
ble ways. 

But the 350,000 slave-holders have not the exclu- 
sive privilege to dispose of the whole vote of the 
Southern States. There are also 528,000 voters whose 
interests and views, if not openly opposed, are in no 
way identified with slavery. There also we have 



THE PAETIES CALLED TO OEDEE. 25 

friends, having big hearts, and minds clear of all pre 
judices. Tliej love this American fatherland as well 
as they do their home, and they do not see why their 
own welfare and the prosperity of the whole country 
should be compromised by the unreasonable prefer- 
ences and silly stubbornness of the slave-holding 
minority. There are in Yirginia, South Carolina, 
Alabama, and even in Mississippi, independent peo- 
ple, who keep aloof from all party squabbles, and are 
not willing to support the ultra-niggerism and filibus- 
tering tendencies of the Cincinnati platform. These 
men begin to see that the conservative Southern party 
can safely join their Northern brethren in the Fre- 
mont movement, and thus obtain a wholesome reform - 
of present abuses and evils, in spite of the Southern 
landed aristocracy. 

There is another class, whose importance consists 
only in its number, which, out of distorted views of 
sectional interest, will go for Buchanan, I mean a 
large portion, certainly the less respectable and less 
enlightened part of naturalized citizens, either Irish 
or Germans. Many of them have left their native 
country under rather unfavorable circumstances, or 
were compelled to leave it by their respective gov- 
ernments, for which they profess the most cordial 
hatred. They have no love for our country, whose 

2 



26 FREMONT, BUCHANAN AND FILLMORE *, OR, 

allegiance they have adopted as a mere matter of 
expediency. Their constant aim is to make their 
adopted country subservient to their particular 
designs. A war with England, or with any other 
power of Europe, would be music to their ears. 
They care very little for the internal concerns of a 
country in which they are strangers, and are cheer- 
fully ready to sacrifice anything for the chances of a 
war against their original foes. Therefore, whenever 
they are called to participate in our national issues, 
we are certain to find them on the side of mischief. 
They will always espouse that cause that forebodes 
trouble. But fortunately these individuals form only 
a class and unimportant section of the large mass of 
our citizens of foreign birth, whose interests, views, 
and sentiments are completely identified with the 
general welfare and prosperity of the Union. En- 
lightened emigrants and all respectable naturalized 
citizens know ' very well, that the efi'orts of . the 
republican party lead to raise, improve and benefit 
them from the competition of slave-labor ; to place 
them in a society in which labor is honored 
and not despised, and to shield them against the 
avaricious attempts of a despicable landed aristoc- 
racy, whose manifest aim is to reduce the free white 
laborer to the same degraded condition as their negro 



THE PABTIES CALLED TO OEDEB. 27 

slaves, and perhaps worse. Only on men like these, 
can civilization and freedom confidently rely, and 
their support is already secured for our cause. 

Another party, whose original aims and views 
would have heen cheerfully adopted by the immense 
majority of our people, if bigotry and the most intole- 
rant spirit of exclusiveness had not reduced it to the 
small proportions of a sect, proposed, through a con- 
vention of its leaders held in Philadelphia, Millard 
Fillmore, as their candidate for the next presidency.* 

Fillmore is, we know, a perfect model of the 
American gentleman, both in moi'als and in manners. 
He has always borne among us an unblemished repu- 
tation for honesty and frankness. But how could the 
majority of the nation accept the candidate of a sect, 
whose resolutions are made in the darkness of its 
councils, and which, like the ardent chamber of 
Westphalia, and the congregations of the SaintfaitJh- 
ists are mysteriously wrapped up in a shroud of secret 
ceremonies ? Our people at large, and the nature of 

* The nomination by the Know-I<fothing Convention, of Philadel- 
phia, reached Mr. Fillmore when he was a favorite guest at the court 
of the Pope, and an occasional visitor of Cardinal Antoaelli, and of 
the General of the Jesuits. We only make this remark for the edifi- 
cation of certain novel makers, who have recently enriched our 
literature with the most amusing stories in respect to Fremont's 
religion. 



28 FKEMONT, BUCHANAN AND FILLMORE ; OE, 

our institutions, are opposed altogether to such forms 
of mummery, and feel diffident at everything that 
shrinks from the public eje. 

Besides, it cannot be contradicted that the system of 
(see the first part of note page Y) bribery and corrup- 
tion began to take root among us during Mr. Fill- 
more's administration, whose characteristic good- 
nature and complaisantness led him also to sign that 
untoward Fugitive Slave Law, and to endorse, in his 
Albany speech, the policy followed by the present 
administration in the Kansas affair. 

But if the parties represented by Buchanan and 
Fillmore are both, more or less, spotted with the same 
leprosy of unscrupulous selfish ambition and cor- 
ruption, we have the power in our hands to draw 
fresh life from the fountain-head of that safety and 
freedom, from which we have departed. 

The nomination of Col. John C. Fremont for the 
Presidency, did not come from the midst of the 
Republican, or as they call it, the Mack Republican 
Convention ; it came originally from the independent 
part of the people, and the independent press ; the 
Republican convention received it from the people 
with acclamation and enthusiasm, and the language 
in which this worthy candidate accepted his nomina- 
tion, gives us a sufficient guarantee that the peo])le 



THE PARTIES CALLED TO ORDER. 29 

will not be disappointed in their judgments. "I 
humbly concur," he says, " with all movements which 
have for their object to repair the mischief arising 
from the violation of the Missouri compromise. I 
am opposed to slavery in the abstract, and upon 
principle made habitual by a long settled conviction. 
While I feel inflexible in the belief that it ought not 
to be interfered with where it exists under the shield 
of State Sovereignty, I am inflexibly opposed to its 
extension." 

So far Fremont's words can be neither clearer 
nor more satisfactory, both to the friends of liberty 
and to the slave-owners themselves. At the same time, 
Mr. Fremont, as President of the United States, will not 
interfere with slavery where it now exists, nor with 
the fugitive slave law, nor with the internal traffic 
of slaves. What more do the Southern slaveholders 
pretend from him and us ? Nor is Mr. Fremont less 
explicit and frank when he manifests his views in 
reference to our foreign policy, being openly opposed 
to all schemes of illegal and forcible territorial 
expansion to the detriment of our neighbors, and 
for the exclusive benefit of Southern slaveholders. 
Tlierefore we can already see, that the patriotic 
response of Col. Fremont to his nomination for the 
next Presidency is calculated to reinstate once more 



30 FREMONT, BUCHANAN AND FILLMOKE ; OR, 

the American nation in its former position in the 
hearts of foreign nations, and to heal the bad sores 
left upon our national character by a demoralized set 
of political speculators. 

And while the friends of Fillmore have joined the 
partisans of Buchanan in a monstrous alliance to 
assail, in the vilest manner, and with the most cow- 
ardly weapons, the friend and companion of Hum- 
boldt, the most courageous and indefatigable explorer 
of our territories and of California, the learned and 
conscientious patriot and politician, scarcely a foreign 
newspaper comes to us from Europe, that does not 
applaud most sincerely our efforts to elect Fremont 
to the Presidency. 

And I must repeat it again : Fremont is not exclu- 
sively the candidate of the free-soilers of the Phila- 
delphia Convention. That convention was almost 
obliged to receive him from the immense majority of 
independent people. He is the candidate of the true 
Democrats, of honest Whigs, of tlie Know Nothings, 
of both native and naturalized citizens, no matter 
whether they go to mass, or if they read the Bible or 
the Talmud, he is the candidate of all those who are 
opposed to the perpetuation of the present shameful 
administration ; and the schemes of his future govern 
ment comprehend a vast schedule of reforms and 



THE PARTIES CALLED TO ORDEB. 31 

improvements highly required for the purification of 
om- public concerns. Therefore it is no wonder, if, in 
view of a general popular movement involving a 
mighty and efficacious revolution, we find a host of 
old political hacks clinging to the skirts of Buchanan 
and Fillmore, in preference to the support of this 
fresh regeneration of our republican institutions.* 

This salutary movement will certainly throw off 
the landmarks of our old parties, and destroy the 
cornipt cliques and petty regencies which have of 
late been monopolizing the public revenue, as well as 
all the branches of our administration. Let us then 
prepare ourselves like men and tried champions of 
liberty for the great struggle which will either 
perpetuate a past full of miseries, and bring us a 
stormy and gloomy future, or which will be a new 
triumph of reason on stubborn ignorance; of ra- 
tional freedom on slave-holding intrusion and pre- 
potency. This is not a question of men, or of a mere 
candidate ; no, it is a question involving the most 
vital principles — a question of progress or of retro- 
gression for all mankind. The whole world has its 

* The last case illustrating the spirit of resistance of old fogyism 
against the Fremont movement, is the reported enlistment of Clayton 
under the banner of Forney : it is the embrace of the Trojans with 
the Tvrians I 



32 FREMONT, BUCHANAN AND FILLMORE. 

eyes turned upon us, anxious to see whether we have 
the power to regenerate the political condition of the 
country, or if the audacious power of a contemptible 
oligarchy has to be enthroned over the graves of 
Washington and Jackson ! But the Union will be 
dissolved, say very clamorously our opponents, if Fre- 
mont is elected; and both Fillmore and Buchanan 
have, in their turn, assured the American people that, 
unless one of them is elected to the presidential chair, 
the great confederacy of our States will be at an end. 
Oh ! marvellous piece of modesty and self-denial on 
the part of such great patriots ! Behold them, with 
the rope around their necks, and enveloped in sack- 
cloth, come forward and offer themselves as volun- 
tary victims for the good of the country ! They, only 
they can save the Union from threatening dissolution 
and ruin ! But we are confident and certain that 
there are other patriots in America endowed with 
purer hearts and more liberal minds, who will save 
our glorious Constitution from being torn leaf by leaf 
by sacrilegious innovators, and defend our Union as 
long as they have arms and hands ; and if these be 
broken or cut off, they will defend it with their 
breasts, and Fremont will be the leader of the uncon- 
querable phalanx! 



33 

¥H0 IS JOHI C. PEEMOIT ? 



" I have aajuaintance with the Colonel, and I am so 
favorably impressed as to him that I would as readily trust 
him as any other individual HIS INTEGRITY IS 
BEYOND SUSPICION."— JoATi C. Calhoun. 

"COL. FREMONT IS A YOUNG OFFICER OF 
GREAT MERIT— ONE WHO DESERVES WELL 
OF HIS COUNTRY FOR THE BRAVERY AND 
ABILITY WITH WHICH HE DISCHARGED HIS 
IMPORTANT AND DELICATE DUTIES IN 
CALIFORNIA."— jDftme^ Welster. 

"Col. Fremont exhibited a combination of energy, 
promptitude, sagacity and prudence, which indicates the 
highest capacity for civil and military command. That the 
country will do justice to his valuable and distinguished 
services I entertain not the slightest doubt." — Senator Diz. 

" Col. Fremont, in my opinion, is the most meritorious 
American of his age now in existence." — Senator Allen, of 
Ohio. 

" I REGARD COL. FREMONT AS ONE OF THE 

MOST HEROIC AND SUCCESSFUL OFFICERS IN 

OUR ARMY — AN ARMY OF WHICH ANY 

NATION MIGHT BE PROUD."—- Sem^or Rusk, of 
Texas. 



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